In 1957, Noam Chomsky, the pioneer of the nativist theory of language acquisition, claimed that all humans are born with an innate capacity for language, in other words, a language acquisition device.
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Italian theologian and Roman Catholic priest of the Dominican Order who adopted Aristotle's empirical approach to nature, maintaining that human beings possess an innate capacity to know many things without special, divine revelation.
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"If you fall sick and go looking for a doctor, you have already failed as the body has a tremendous and innate capacity to heal itself, " said Rajen in an interview with Business Times.
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The ideology underlying racist practices often includes the idea that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as inferior or superior.
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"' Language module "'refers to a hypothesized structure in the human brain ( anatomical module ) or cognitive system ( functional module ) that some psycholinguists such as Steven Pinker claim contains innate capacities for language.
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His personal theology was Priestleian rationalism; he rejected the doctrine of original sin, believing humans to have an innate capacity for good, and this belief seems to have underpinned his lifelong commitment to charitable and educational projects.
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This is what gives women this innate capacity to act and perhaps comes from the fact that they've been socially conditioned or repressed until very recently ( and ) denied their physical, psychological and emotional needs ."
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She saw urban planning as " an ideal profession for a woman because it builds on her innate capacity for providing an orderly and aesthetic environment for herself, her family and the community in which she lives ".
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At the core of holistic health care is the belief that healing is an innate capacity, and that the task of the patient and the professional caring for him or her is to remove obstacles to that process.
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"Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account ."
